Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
Well I heard she flew down to the Mountain City
He said that's not what I heard I hear she went higher
She depended on her friends to tell her when to stop it
To make a statement this is me talking to you
Like Alice through the Looking Glass
She used to know who she was
Call out my name call out my name
But I get no answer she prays
Better run for your life cried the Mad Hatter
Alright said Alice I'm going back
To the other side of the mirror I'm going back
Oh no, you cannot tell a gypsy ooh, that she's no longer a member
Become a deadly weapon now along with everything else
Oh call my name
Like Alice through the Looking Glass
She used to know who she was
Call out my name like Alice through the Looking Glass
But I get no answer she used to know who she was
And she prays for the world that she comes from
Each had their own charm
Buried beneath a solid piece of armour or a steel plated vest
Some carry a stiletto in their garter along with everything else
That they carry oh, call my name
Like Alice through the Looking Glass
She used to know who she was
Call out my name like Alice through the Looking Glass
But I get no answer (she used to know who she was
And she prays for the world that she comes from
Alice! call my name
Oh run for your life said the Mad Hatter
Alright said Alice I'm going back to the other side of the mirror
This is me talking to you well this is me talking to ya
Alice Alice
He said that's not what I heard I hear she went higher
She depended on her friends to tell her when to stop it
To make a statement this is me talking to you
Like Alice through the Looking Glass
She used to know who she was
Call out my name call out my name
But I get no answer she prays
Better run for your life cried the Mad Hatter
Alright said Alice I'm going back
To the other side of the mirror I'm going back
Oh no, you cannot tell a gypsy ooh, that she's no longer a member
Become a deadly weapon now along with everything else
Oh call my name
Like Alice through the Looking Glass
She used to know who she was
Call out my name like Alice through the Looking Glass
But I get no answer she used to know who she was
And she prays for the world that she comes from
Each had their own charm
Buried beneath a solid piece of armour or a steel plated vest
Some carry a stiletto in their garter along with everything else
That they carry oh, call my name
Like Alice through the Looking Glass
She used to know who she was
Call out my name like Alice through the Looking Glass
But I get no answer (she used to know who she was
And she prays for the world that she comes from
Alice! call my name
Oh run for your life said the Mad Hatter
Alright said Alice I'm going back to the other side of the mirror
This is me talking to you well this is me talking to ya
Alice Alice
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Alice Lyrics as written by Stevie Nicks Rupert Hine
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I can't belive no has commented on this song. Stevie Nicks is just so talented and this song is so pretty. Like all of stevie's songs are so meaningful and have so many stories in them. Anyways this is one of my favorite songs by Stevie Nicks.
it is true , when you have no friends, you dont know how or why to stop.. The world hurts .and if every where you turn ,even backwards is strangers ..you loved as a trusted child.. you have no god to pray too.
Stevie has never said (at least I have never heard her saying or haven't read nothing concrete) what this song is exactly about. But if you read her comments you can understand that the story of Alice is a referance to her dubble life. I mean life between Fleetwood Mac and her solo carieer and life between carieer and her personal life. Well, here's what she said: “Much of Alice in Stevie Nicks’ Alice is Stevie writing about Alice in parallel back to Stevie, so I’m really writing about Alice’s adventures as in comparison to my adventures,” she once explained. “For Alice to run back and forth between the looking glass is kind of what I perceive my whole life to be, running back and forth between two places — which is obviously my career with Fleetwood Mac and my career by myself. And then of course, there’s the other part of my life, which is my own life, which there isn’t very much of. But I always seem to be running to one place or the other.”